Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) was one of the most important composers of the Renaissance Period. While Palestrina was well recognised in the Roman territories, Orlando di Lasso was a truly multicultural artist, whose reputation spanned the whole of Europe. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all his master works with Stretta Music today!
Orlando di Lasso was the last great Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance Period. Di Lasso was very well travelled, and in his work, there are traces of many different European cultures including Holland, Sicily, Italy, England, France and Germany.
On finishing his studies in 1556, he joined the Munich Court Orchestra, one of the top ensembles of its time, becoming the musical director in 1564, a post he held for the rest of his life. Here, di Lasso had an impressive number of musicians at his disposal for the time, 56 singers and 30 instrumentalists. Orlando di Lasso also taught a number of prominent composers, including Johannes Eccard and Giovanni Gabrieli.
Orlando di Lasso wrote a great deal of Sacred Music. He wrote over 1200 motets, which have a relatively free structure, and often adopt simple song melodies as motifs or “cantus firmus”. He also composed Masses, Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis’, Lamentations and Psalms.
About half of his output however falls under Secular Music. Di Lasso composed madrigals, villanelles, chansons and songs, which not only showcase his masterful polyphonic technique, but also his sense of humour, for example in the madrigals “Mattona mia cara” and“ Echo”. The modern harmonic developments of the time, the move away from plagal tonality towards modern harmonic tonal music, slowly filtered into di Lasso’s works, and it began to take on the tonal harmony we recognise today.
Cantiones quinque vocum (Munich, 1597)
Cantiones sacrae sex vocibus (Munich, 1601)
for: 5–6 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160540
Geistliche Musik
for: 2-6 Part Choir a Cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934888
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 964410
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916227
Musik der Bayerischen Hofkapelle zur Zeit Orlando di Lassos I
for: 5 voices
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 1136669
(Tritt Aud Den Riegel Von Der Tur) - S.S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626195
for: Women's Choir [SSA] A Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 998616
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309746
für 2 gem Chöre a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 179082
aus: Sacrae cantiones
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 341898
Magnificat-Kompositionen der Jahre 1576-1583 aus Münchner Handschriften. 21 Kompositionen zu 4, 5, 6 und 8 Stimmen
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 15
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 116271